Basketball leagues come a dime a dozen! But whenever I would manage one, I would try to do things a little different! Take for instance Bill's Basketball Club! This was a league I made into my own personal NBA! I had the teams wearing replica NBA Uniforms. I also played in this league, and my team was the Chicago Bulls, of course! We played with shot-clocks, and NBA rules. I had a website for the league, and I posted league schedules, players stats, league standings. I had over and under game predictions, and also posted game highlights! It was pretty fun and the guys really seemed to get a kick out of it! Another service that I offered to the guys, was selling DVD copies of the games. The players really like this service! I mean what guy doesn't want to see himself in hi-def, on the TV screen, doing his thing on the basketball court! The guys would take these DVD copies and share them with their people, I'm sure, but to actually make the DVDs was a huge hassle.
To copy a game to a DVD, with old equipment, was a long process! First, you have to record the game with a camcorder. Not a huge problem, unless your cam copies footage to tapes. Now, since we are in 2009, most people have gotten rid of their VCRs. So, I had to take the tapes from the Cam, and use special software to capture the footage from the tapes, to convert that to a computer file. That took over an hour to do. Okay, now you have captured the tape footage, and turned it to a computer file! Now, you gota get the computer file ready to burn to a DVD. The file is huge, so, you kill another hour doing that! Just go get a Snicker candy bar, right, cause you've got mad time to kill! Once that is done, now you are ready to burn your first DVD copy, but the actual burn takes almost half an hour. Now, once you burn your first copy, the other DVD copies only took about 5 minutes! But, with three games to do at any given time, you can see how easy it is to burn a whole day while you burn DVDs for the players. Now, let me tell you how this process will change, in 2009, for the Premiere Hoops Invitation.
Every time I run a basketball program, I try to do the next one a little smarter! For the Premiere Hoops Invitation, I will be using a Camcorder that will record games straight to computer files. This recording process will save me about two hours per game, which will save me time to do some other fun stuff with the game footage! You'll have to stay tune to find out exactly what we'll do, but just think Sports Center from ESPN. Players from the Premiere Hoops Invitation will be able to purchase DVD copies of the games in a number of ways. First, you will be able to prepay a $7 fee, and receive the DVD when I bring the copy back with me, to the game site, for the next round of play, in the PHI. Or, players can pay a $10 fee, and I will mail the DVD copy to you ASAP!
A lot of cats didn't get a fair shot to play college or pro basketball. But why should that stop you from getting a taste of what those experiences are like! You can do that now, with Premiere Hoops, where we make your Hoop Dreams come true! We'll do a lot of the same stuff in the Premiere Hoops Invitation, that we did in Bills Basketball Club, but better! Just get a solid team together and register today for the Premiere Hoops Invitation, which starts play in April. Better be ready to go in though, when you come to play in this one, because just like the NCAA's, if you loose, your toast! We even give you a chance to win championship rings, all for the low cost of only $300! For the Summer and Fall, we got NBA-Style leagues coming! If you are a real baller reading this blog, you don't want to miss these events. Hustle up and get your teams in before the March 29 deadline gets past you! Next up, No. 8. Just The Facts, Please!
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